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and he's hunting down terrorists on his own doing something against us it's a beauty. mustn't list from victim to terrorist hunter. koso starting october sixteenth on. this this do you have your news live from berlin crunch time for catalonia madrid gives the region separatist leader until thursday to clarify his stance on independence or face the consequences for succumbing up. a boost for
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populist politics in europe as conservative sebastian cortes wins austria's election by embracing the policies of the far right and in sport match take it in the bundesliga is complete is it three way race at the top and mention god grant has suddenly put itself in contention at number five. hello and welcome i'm under thought she may spin has given the cotton on leader charles bridgeable until thursday to clarify the region has not declared independence and to return to complying with the country's laws spain's deputy prime minister should be all to meet him after the council on leader failed to clarify his position by monday morning's deadline instant bridgeable wrote a letter calling for two months of talks if he pushes ahead with plans to breakaway
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then madrid could suspend gotta looniest autonomy. correspondent barbara visit is following that story and joins me from the catalunya capital barcelona barbara the central government has extended the deadline until thursday is anything like to change by then from the catalan side. not very likely a greater because what could they possibly do push him out has tried to sort of take off some heat out of this issue by writing to madrid and saying oh come on let's sit down and talk about all this i'm such a peaceful man i don't want a crisis all i want is a good result lucian of this murder it is not playing it was quite clear it really they really insist the central government on the rule of law on the wrist or all of those half cooked independence declaration from last tuesday and they say if
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you don't step back we are going to sort of take away power from you and you will be politically a total totally on the outside the bubble which you will have ignored today's deadline and had not said a clear yes or no to independence as the central government had demanded basically he's keeping all his options open what does he hope to achieve with the strategy. what he's really trying to do somehow is write the tiger because as we know from past experience that usually goes wrong because he tried to know sort of satisfy his own followers by keeping this in the balance and on the other hand sort of give peace signs towards madrid and trying to engage the central government in talks and somehow save his skin but this is not going to work simply because madrid is not playing ball was him however we also heard this is in his own regional government
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the left wing party propping him up his minority government they are very dissatisfied and they are angry and they say now we want independence right now otherwise we're going to explode things so things are going wrong for putting money in any case he's going to lose is a fragile majority in the regional government here and he has madrid on his back so want to if peter will ignore the new deadline of a stay what is at stake at the moment. at stake is the independent relatively aton the relative autonomy of catalonia what will happen on thursday if he ignores the deadline after the deadline really is that the government will invoke article one hundred fifty five step means it will take away the powers of the regional government it will then put in a sort of interim government or a governing body and it will call for elections and so the people will get to
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decide who is going to take over after push demand however his own political fate seems to be sealed at this point in time baba bizzle in barcelona thank you very much. helena's here from the business desk and the council on crisis also affecting investments and business yes that's right i'm rita we're talking about spain's worst political crisis in decades that certainly isn't good for businesses for investments for the business sentiment in spader many businesses will have already had enough of all that uncertainty forty four major companies moving out of catalonia moving their headquarters to quite often madrid to following that referendum now among them gas fenosa about this sell next and colonial all of those a big name companies that are listed on spain's main stock index the i that thirty
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five or so gone the big banks is now headquartered in valencia we've got some adele which has moved down to l.a. county in fact only one ibex listed firm that's the drug make a great falls still remains in the region of catalonia now the companies that are leaving account for approximately one hundred fifty fifty thousand jobs in a combined combined net profit of over eight billion euros last year worst of all all of this has come as a surprise to many councillor nia. it sounded so good spain's economically strongest region freed from any financial commitment to the rest of the country the downsides not according to those who spearheaded the independence movement. and the point that there is so much fear so much fear and they are saying the banks would leave it alone no banks
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will leave catalonia do you think they will leave and of course they won't but they will stay they will stay here not to help us but because it is in their own interest we know that much. gets the last three years i've got a dark militia. who found for him that is wrong. turns out the banks aren't staying there among forty four companies that have moved away since the referendum over two thousand smaller ones had already left over the past two years for good reason says joseph. he runs a bakery chain and serves as president of the car saloni and business association i thought. it would affect all cattle when companies it would mean a loss of markets. is made up of twenty seven nations to which we set out i mean that was when we get the big issues with orders systems and taxes we will lose
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competitive and us. imports post you know say the most competent people. being locked out of the e.u. would be a problem for the baker and maybe more so for the banker kaiser bank one of the country's big four announced its move to valencia only days after the referendum desperate to calm clients into the business so far we're calm but as soon as we perceive any kind of uncertainty for you maybe we will get our money out of there. she's able to this is tim doesn't inspire confidence in me and so that's why i decided to withdraw all my savings. as tension mines many fear a piece of scenes like these in barcelona last week the prospect of big businesses leaving has left some catalans ready to follow the big corporations and move away from home. and of course another sector that could suffer as a result of spain's political turmoil tourism last year catalonia attracted some eighteen
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million visitors more than any other region in the country but they're all fears that further instability could keep tourists away no matter how alluring the blue skies and sandy beaches maybe. there's little sign of spain's political storm on the beaches of parsa loner most tourists here would rather soak up the sun than worry about the question of cost and independence. not due to recent comments from the couple prime minister so we feel it's ok you feel everything is working here he said the families who want to be here. but there are fears over the impact the turmoil could have in the future tourism accounts for over a tenth of the spanish economy catalonia attract some eighteen million visitors a year more than any other region its capital barcelona is one of europe's top
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destinations some visitors there took a philosophical approach everything changes sometimes the country split. that particular battle hopefully they'll be used up towards but it doesn't matter it's not going to restrict me unless there's a lot of serious on tourism gold for the time being visitors appear sangram but with little prospect of the political chaos of beijing anytime soon barcelona's tour buses might not be full for long. spain is not the only country seeing a shake up to its political scene in austria of course is the shift to the right exactly in fact a lurch to the right a young man who promised to shake up austrian politics is said to do just that how do you want it or sebastian course is on track to become the country's next leader mir final results from sunday's elections have put his conservative people sparty in first place but also claiming victory is the far right freedom party founded by
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ex nazis after the war the party was once sean to eschew extremists but now they could play kingmaker in austria's new government. they call him ven divert see the whiz kid at thirty one the conservative sebastian cortes becomes europe's youngest head of government promising a new kind of politics. today we have a strong mandate to change this country and i thank you for making that possible. that would. the far right freedom party led by hans christian strata achieved close to the best result in its history and looks most likely to form a coalition with the conservatives both parties that campaigned against immigration and islamic the will for change in austria is widespread and strong a series of scandals hammered the social democrats of outgoing chancellor christian
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can he's now facing a spell in opposition. it's about defending modern diverse and democratic austria that will be needed more than ever in the next five years. yet another surprise came for the greens their vote fell by nearly two thirds making even their presence in the next parliament uncertain. wrangling over the shape of the next coalition can now begin the far rights likely return to government in wealthy austria will worry a european union already unsettled by brics it and rising extremism and if you have a chorus imax of mine is covering the austrian elections and he joins me now from vienna max abbas wants to become the youngest leader in europe possibly in the one when he takes over as chancellor at the age of thirty one what explains his
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meteoric rise in politics. well and surprisingly a reader he started fairly early with politics he was a student when he joined the austrian people's party and he did quite well back then also the people's party was looking for young talent so they rewarded him as a position of state secretary and later we know he became foreign minister of austria and then at some point the party looked around and only saw old men and said we need to do something about our image we need somebody younger they didn't have a whole lot of people who were younger so sebastian chords was a natural he's a hard worker he's a good listener he's a meticulous planner and apparently he planned to get into the chancellery that you can see right behind me for quite some time so it was a combination of luck and also ability that if we talk about his private life we don't know much i asked somebody from venice what are his hobbies and she said are you kidding me he doesn't have any hobbies politics are his hobbies well he does and he does have a high school sweetheart now for twelve years he comes from from
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a bill class family a technician and a teacher and apparently austrians can relate to him what he represents his message and also they believe that he can fill any kind of political shoes off has not got a majority in this election and given his campaign. that he going to coalition with the father right. on sunday night he said he was keeping all the options open but they really there aren't that many options there is the grand coalition in theory they would have the numbers to do that so with the social democrats but that's the grand coalition they had the last ten years and that's the grand coalition that colt's when becoming head of the austrian people's party explicitly killed so that isn't really an option and the only really for him remaining them is to have a coalition with the far right freedom party and if you listen to his message during the campaign they aren't that far apart indeed many experts here are saying
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he took two or three pages out of the playbook of the freedom party so for what he was saying a significant lurched to the right what impact will this have on the european union do you think banks for first of all it appears to widen the gap that we're already witnessing between the eastern countries in the western countries and eastern countries largely against more migration not sure what all this is about the globalisation part digitalisation the opening up afraid that they will lose their national identities and we do expect austria to go more in the direction of those countries and maybe farther away from countries like france and germany but you have to remember in spite of his hardline message on immigration sébastien course is also very pragmatic so we might see a different person in the chancellery behind me than we saw on the campaign trail right max health one indiana frank you very much for being us up to date.
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now we have lots more on the austrian election as well as the chancellor in waiting on our web site that's the w dot com let me now bring you up to date with some other stories making news around the world in germany the social democrat party has won a key recent election in the state of lower saxony and lawmakers conservatives came in second with their vast result in decades the outcome could weaken matters position as she starts talks this week on forming a new governing coalition after last month's national vote. officials in portugal see dozens of wildfires in the north of the country have killed at least twenty people more than five thousand firefighters are struggling to contain the blazes in neighboring spain fires killed at least two people authorities said winds from hurricane ophelia off the atlantic coast were worsening the flames iraqi troops have started moving into kurdish hands territories in the province of kirkuk
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government forces want to retake military bases and oil fields that kurdish fighters seized three years ago from the so-called islamic state kurdish rebels have called the operation an unprovoked attack it comes three weeks after iraq's autonomy scourges region voted for independence. venezuelan president nicolas maduro has hailed the results of regional elections his ruling party won nearly all twenty three contested states governorships opposition leader leaders have said this is spec election fraud independent both have projected the opposition would win a majority due to my doodles poor handling of venezuela's economic crisis. filipino security officials have said the last remaining leaders of an islamist militant group laying siege to the southern city of marjah obvious have been killed the two brothers were in line to support islamic state they were killed in
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a military operation after a tip off from a rescued after. turning out a somali with a death toll from the huge truck bomb explosion in the capital mogadishu has risen to over three hundred the bombing took place in a busy commercial district on saturday is the deadliest single attack in the country's history the government has declared three days of national mourning. the crowd marched and chanted against the islamist militant group al-shabaab the group has staged similar attacks before but has not claimed responsibility for this one. the death toll is rising quickly it stands at more than three hundred with hundreds more wounded. so. it was a massacre what happened on saturday. i have also such
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a thing in the last twenty seven years. i witnessed a little boy's head laying on the ground. and his mother and other children were also decapitated his the by the exclusion. and i think that all of the. police said a truck packed with hundreds of kilos of explosives blew up outside a hotel at a busy intersection in downtown mogadishu close to government offices embassies and restaurants the blast flattened several buildings and set a nearby fuel tanker on fire. rescue workers said it would be difficult to determine how many people were killed because the intense heat from the blast means the remains of many would never be found. people are thought to still be trapped in the rubble of the collapsed buildings. local hospitals were struggling to cope as casualties arrived. so.
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far and it was just believed what we have seen is a very unusual jumble but the hospital was overwhelmed by both dead and wounded but we also received people whose limbs were blown off by the bomb of. some of this is really horrendous unlike any other time in the past who's going to get it until you get it from doing so no so much. two hours after the first blast another explosion struck the capital's medina district local officials said it killed two people. somalia's president mohamed abdulla he mohamed has declared three days of national mourning. turning now to start ostrich all the rage here and berlin and helena's here to deconstruct what is this buzzword really made absolutely everything if you ask anyone they do these days more and more you're likely to hear that word don't you start up certainly here in the german
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capital but what is your average startup actually look like while the results of a new study called the german startup monitor are in they looked at some one thousand eight hundred startups with more than four thousand two hundred founders and this is what that survey reveals a typical found a looks something like this male we can say that because there's around eighty five percent of them on average they're thirty five and a half years of age and when it comes to a university degree well around eighty one percent have one now they tend to be a co-operative bunch as well two out of every three startup founders work together with other startup companies and they certainly appreciate die versity as well another two out of three saying that immigration is certainly a good thing where say eighty three percent would like to become more international particularly in e.u. countries now founding
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a company is one thing finding enough investors to grow your company well that is something else so let's ask our financial correspondent clinic had to send in frankfurt now conrad how easy or difficult is it to find investors in germany these days. well it's become easier helen that if you're really serious about what you are doing unlike the turn of the century you know after the tech bubble burst investors want to know much more precisely what your business plan is what your product looks like where you're at in terms of development of your company it's helps as a founder if you have connections to the primus german middle you know the small and medium sized companies many of the machinery makers many of them market leaders on their small global markets many of the startups that succeed here in germany have strong ties to companies like this the traditional venture capital funds you
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know big funds that spend a lot of money on startups that amount of money has lessened here in germany the amount has come down to a bit more than two billion euros last year from three billion the year before cotton had risen in a frankfurt for us thank you very much indeed china's essential bank is forecasting growth of seven percent in the second half of this year and that is despite widespread fears of an economic slowdown strong lending figures in in the month of september have boosted confidence in the wall second largest economy last month also saw a bigger than expected rise in the country's producer index that was fueled by a strong demand for wool or tiriel the banks will cost comes this communist party leaders prepared to meet on wednesday actually i'm reading now for the latest on politics in the world. to american football next year the man who started
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the take and the protests against racial inequality has found a grievance against the national football league. collin a keeper nick alleges he has been without a job since the start of the season because of team owner collusion collusion now the former san francisco quarterback first took a need to ring the u.s. national anthem last year as a means of publicly objecting to police shootings and alleged brutality. to bundesliga action on breman hosted mentioned last bark on sunday with the home team looking for their first win of the season and they're still looking after gladbach picked up the win and moved into first place in the league. braman fans are nothing if not optimistic despite not having seen their side win all season they filled the phase i study in coach alexander newry was relieved to welcome captain zach are you news of it back to the starting line up for the first
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time this season after injury. that it was the opposing team's captain who opened the scoring on twenty seven minutes last indo taking advantage of some sloppy verda defending. if you though could have anticipated that turn and finish simply expose it minutes later the visitors tightened their control of the game vests to guard rose highest from a corner and muted celebration from the jane out of respect for his former club no more goes followed after the break this was grant backs first away win of the campaign. event or the wait for any win goes on and xander nuri is a man under pressure. now staying with the industry again the only element is only one point in the standings which separated eva crews in from heading into their match at the bay arena both sides are looking to make up ground
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on the top half of the league have a look. it took until midway through the first period for labor couzens encounter with wolfsburg to get interesting a late accusing call occult havoc at the wolfsburg box on last bender smashed in the opener his first goal of the campaign. was back hit back just before the breakthrough all know liverpool four did local regi well moan at half time. later coups and then reach the league when argentinian striker lucas and lower rio continued his good start to life in the bundesliga. but yacob last of course he snatched a point for the wolves in sixty nine minutes their fourth draw in a row under new coach martin schmidt it did not play the coups in the third straight home league win. here's a recap of the top stories that we're following field spain gives catalonia separatist leader until ca's day to clarify his stance on independence if he
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decides to push ahead with plans to break away than madrid could suspend the region's autonomy. and austrian conservative sebastiaan cause is on track to become the country's next leader his people spotted looks set to become the first in the country's election after campaigning on an anti immigrant rightwing platform. you know what you need i mean he is coming to you live from berlin i'll be back with you for an update in half an hour but meanwhile i'm going to leave you with images from the albuquerque international balloon fiesta in new mexico enjoy.
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